Iconic Films: ‘Dr. Strangelove’: Director Stanley Kubrick’s Satirical Cold War Masterpiece

Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper (L) and Peter Sellers as British RAF officer Lionel Mandrake in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." Columbia Pictures

PG | 1h 34min | Comedy, Satire, War | 29 January 1964 (USA)

The third of four feature films about war by director Stanley Kubrick, “Dr. Strangelove” (or formally: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”) is easily his most mainstream-accessible offering and arguably the greatest movie in his sterling, nearly flawless catalogue.